In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

Álvaro Enrigue's new novel reimagines Hernán Cortés' and Moctezuma's empires : NPR's Book of the Day You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between ...

Object Details Author Cortés, Hernán 1485-1547 Chamberlain, Robert Stoner 1903-Notes "[Translated] from a copy of the first eighty questions of the questionnaire in the Residencia of Cortés, Archivo ...